It’s 1980 and the term date rape won’t exist for another 10 years. Even after it gets invented, it will always carry its own unique wink/nudge quality. It says, “everyone knows there’s no such thing as rape. It’s simply what a girl says to avoid looking like a slut.”
Coal miners in Gillette, Wyoming, were angry about Joe Biden’s presidency. They feared his putting the final nail in a coffin that has been closing on them for two decades – the last four of which having been on Trump’s watch.
I was raised as a Lutheran: the milk-toastiest church in the universe compared to the snakeoil and battery acid varieties so prominent today. But God and I had the inevitable falling out after my first year of college (such a cliche.) So, this is me toying with the nature of faith, and why I have so little of it.
I was raised as a Lutheran: the milk-toastiest church in the universe compared to the snakeoil and battery acid varieties so prominent today. But God and I had the inevitable falling out after my first year of college (such a cliche.) So, this is me toying with the nature of faith, and why I have so little of it.
It's been almost a year since being 'released' from my job. As my age creeps ever closer to Irrelevant, this is becoming a siege.
I was a kid when women first starting making noise about equal rights. I don't know if it's causing MORE chaos now, but there's definitely more opportunity to express ourselves.
When you spend a good part of your cultural past being less-than, being held down, disregarded, and dehumanized, I can understand the natural response of making something that's JUST YOURS. Do you end up hurting yourself in the process?
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September 11th was a slow-motion nightmare. It also could've been a learning experience. Instead, it whipped up our worst tendencies for aggressive nationalism, intolerance, and hubris.